I am a little in awe of Jeff Bridges. He's an actor I have admired for many years, and so I didn't… — James Frain Copy Share Image
Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a real problem, because… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
When I'm writing novels, even screenplays, it's never an actor I have in mind; it's always the version in my head of… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I mean one of the weird things about TV and one of the things that some actors don't like but I kind… — Mary McCormack Copy Share Image
I did quite a lot of fencing when I was a kid, I was a swimmer, and I played a lot of… — Kieran Bew Copy Share Image
The thing that I enjoy about being an actor and the thing that I enjoy about the arts in general is the… — Kal Penn Copy Share Image
I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this… — Joan Severance Copy Share Image
When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
I think maybe I was instrumental in taking the stereotype out of the Southern actor is some ways. I would hope my… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
Direction is a thousand choices, a thousand decisions a day. And having a vision of what you want, and then knowing what… — Sean Stone Copy Share Image
Like anything to do with trust, in any relationship it emerges and just the chemistry, vibe between two people an actor and… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it,… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world… — Jacquelyn Mitchard Copy Share Image
It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
There's such a grand fraternity of actors who've played the Joker, not the least of whom is Mark Hamill, who voiced it… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very… — Jon Favreau Copy Share Image
The magic of drama is infinitely more powerful than the magic of trickery. It is as available to the conjurer as it… — Milbourne Christopher Copy Share Image
When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
Before I made it big I worked as a dishwasher, washing dishes in this place called Dishwasher House where people could just… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
Ultimately your job as an actor is to perform however you're being asked to perform and there's many different procedures as an… — Kurt Russell Copy Share Image
You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazing actors and actresses,… — Gabriel Basso Copy Share Image
One actor in my life is enough, and that's me. With actors, it's too easy to go into this world of complaining.… — Bojana Novakovic Copy Share Image
Some actors like encouragement. Some actors prefer to have pressure. And sometimes, for some actors, its better to give your comment by… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be an actor you need various things. You need to have a head for choosing the roles. You have to be,… — Jeremy Irons Copy Share Image
The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I'm really lucky, I have my performing career so I can continue to do personal appearances. Most actors have to do a… — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
Even when I went to America I didn't work for four years. It wasn't like I came to New York and it… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
I try to make movies that I would want to go see rather than ones I would just want to do as… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
The big thing for actors is the level of commitment. So, if you know something's already happened, there's not a whole lot… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Actors write movies all the time, but you try fiction and you're an asshole. Everyone wants to try new things, or almost… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
I wanted to become an actor. I went to Guildhall School of Music and Drama, which is one of the main drama… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
I also want the chance to work with some of the best actors in the business, because that's where you can learn… — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
